Blasters Training Seminar

Does Your Blasters License Expire Soon?

This 20-hour course provides participants with basic training for blasting in the crushed stone and construction industries. It is of invaluable use for individuals concerned with other aspects of blasting, such as those used by underground mines and utility companies.

The course also acquaints participants with federal and state licensing, purchase, transportation and storage regulations. Experienced blasters and engineers may use the course as both a refresher and an update on new products, blasting techniques, and regulations, as well as to enhance their blasting knowledge and skills. Refresher training is good for one year before renewal of license and renewal may be made six months in advance.

The Blasters Seminar is approved by the State of Missouri and fulfills the training requirement portion of State Blasters licensing.

Dates, Fees and Accommodations

September 26-28, 2018

Full Three-Day Seminar – $695$645 fee for MLPA and ISEE members

Full seminar is great for basic blasters training Earn 20 PDHs, equivalent to 2.0 CEUs

One-Day Refresher Course – $295Choose the day you want to attend – Wed/Thurs/Fri

Course Guest Lecturers:Elements of the course will be given by specialists of their particular field. Past guest lecturers from industry have included:

Austin Powder

Buckley Powder

ECI

Orica

Missouri S&T

Vibra-Tech Engineers

S&T'S EXPERIMENTAL MINE

Since 1913, Missouri S&T’s experimental mine has allowed access to activities and demonstrations in underground workings and small-scale quarries, including extensive magazine facilities and has been regularly listed as one of Popular Science magazine’s most “awesome labs.” The new Kenndey Experimental Mine Building opened in 2016.This 15,000 sq ft facility houses a mine rescue laboratory, mucking stations, separate mine dry houses for men and women, three new classrooms, offices, warehouse space and a historic center for the mining industry.

This facility also provides much-needed and newly established classroom space to accommodate courses, such as Blasters Training, as well as the increased number of students enrolled in Missouri S&T’s mining and explosives engineering programs. Enrollment in these programs has more than doubled since 2006 and supports S&T’s teaching and research initiatives in mine ventilation and atmospheric control, rock mechanics and ground control, drilling and blasting, explosives, mine survey, transportation and infrastructure, mineral processing, mine power and drainage, and surface and underground mining methods.

Course Director

EUR ING Paul Worsey, P.hD., C.ENG., MIOM3, FIEXPE

Academic Biography

Dr. Paul Worsey, Professor and Associate Chair of Explosives Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has over 35 years of explosives and blasting experience and has been involved in blasting training for over 25 years. He has been on numerous programs such as TLC, Discovery and History channels, and National Geographic highlighting explosives, blasting and demolition. He co-hosted The Detonators, a series on Discovery.

Dr. Worsey is responsible for the first Explosives Engineering Masters in the nation. He has over 200 publications and has taught over 75 short courses on blasting throughout the world and consults in the field of blasting, consults in the field of blasting and holds blasters license #2 in Missouri.

At Missouri S&T, his work has included blast casting, underground tunnel blasting, perimeter blasting, high speed video analysis of blasts, the development of a blast plug, fuse design, and explosive testing and formulation. Before coming to Missouri S&T in 1981, he worked for the TRRL in Scotland, trouble-shooting highway blasting contracts in the Highlands and doing extensive work on pre-split blasting. He holds an M.S. in rock mechanics and excavation engineering and a Ph.D. in mining engineering from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England.

Hotel Accomodations:Room reservations must be made on your own. Link to Rolla Area Hotels

Fees

Seminar Fees:

Full Three-Day Course – $695 ($645 for MLPA & ISEE Members):Completion of the full three-day course will qualify attendees to receive 20 Professional Development Hours (PDHs), equivalent to 2.0 CEUs. A thumb drive of course notes will be provided to those attending the full three-day course.

One-day Refresher Course $295:One full day, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday can be used to earn 8.0 Professional Development Hours (PDHs), equivalent to 0.8 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for re-licensing in Missouri. (Thursday or Friday Refresher is suggested due to Wednesday being more introductory.)

Cancellations

Cancellation Policies:

Missouri University of Science and Technology reserves the right to cancel its programs in the event of insufficient registrations, instructor illness, severe weather, or natural disaster. In the event of cancellation, registrants will be notified immediately and all registration fees will be refunded in full.

Persons wishing to cancel their registrations must do so by September 19, 2018 (for the Sept. 2018 seminar). Refunds will not be made after this date. Substitutions may be made at any time.